EKUSHEY SPECIAL 2016

The Bangla language movement, which began even before Pakistan officially came into existence in August 1947 and reached its climax in 1952, was the first mass movement in East Bengal that sowed the seed of a pervasive nationalist movement eventually…

The Negro of the Antilles will be proportionately whiter — that is, he will come closer to being a real human being — in direct ratio to his mastery of the French language. I am not unaware that this is one of man’s attitudes face to face with Being…

LONG before the February Bhasha Andolan happened in our country (1948–1952), the Urdu speakers had initiated a language movement in British India and achieved more or less the same political goal which was nationalist mobilisation…

OUR language movement of 1952 was more than a historical moment and surely more than a sliding signifier, although the problem remains one of seeing things historically. Of course, our middle-class, soggy, sentimental…

The spirit of the language movement was to create a nation state but it has never materialised in the country. Another important objective was to establish Bangla in all spheres of life which has remained a far cry…